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A tragic death. A town filled with secrets • A Nameless Body • A young man is found hanging from a tree, with nothing to identify him • No Leads To Follow • Was he driven to suicide, or was he silenced? Somebody knows, but they're not saying • Who's next? • With potential witnesses too scared to talk to her, can DI Manon Bradshaw discover the truth before more innocent people die?

The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy • Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already • Rocky Mountains, 1823 • The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker • But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. But, fearing an imminent attack, they abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized rifle and hatchet • As Glass watches the men flee, he is driven to survive by one all-consuming desire: revenge

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant • In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier – a clash of cultures between a young, ambitious nation and the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming’s Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds, the home of the Lakota. Red Cloud, one of the Lakota’s most respected chiefs, and Crazy Horse, a young but visionary warrior, understand full well the implications of this invasion. For the Lakota, the stakes are their home, their culture, their lives

The remarkable true story of ‘Big Red,’ one of America’s finest racehorses • When her beloved Meadow Stables is faced with closure following her father’s illness, housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over. Despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge she calls in assistance from trainer Lucien Laurin and a host of successful jockeys • Pitted against the Phipps’ racing dynasty, Penny takes the decision to breed her mare Somethingroyal to the Phipps’ Bold Ruler, the nation’s favourite stallion. With the toss of a coin it is agreed that one family will take Somethingroyal’s first foal with the losing stable taking the colt out of Hasty Matelda and Somethingroyal’s second foal. Penny loses the toss, but the wait for the unborn foal proves fortuitous when a bright red chestnut colt is born, Secretariat

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it • Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence • When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence

Роман Нила Стивенсона "Падение, или Додж в Аду" - это оригинальное сочетание научной фантастики, фэнтезийных приключений и философской саги • Ричард "Додж" Фортраст, миллионер и основатель известной компании по разработке видеоигр, умирает в результате несчастного случая. По условиям завещания, его мозг сканируют, а структурную информацию загружают в хранилище данных, надеясь на дальнейшее развитие технологий. Проходят годы и оцифрованное сознание Доджа подключают к Битмиру - вечной загробной жизни, в которой люди существуют как цифровые души в телах-симулякрах. Но является ли утопией этот новый дивный бессмертный мир? Драматический конфликт аналогового и цифрового, человека и машины, ангелов и демонов, богов и верующих, суетного и вечного в будущем, которое вот-вот наступит

A Race Against Time • The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat • A Fight For Their Lives • Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds • A Disaster Like No Other • Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation? • Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about

A race against time • The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat • A fight for their lives • Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds • A disaster like no other • Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation? • Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about

For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world • Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world • Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of East Africa are preparing for battle. Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere • This story of one boy's long walk to freedom is also the story of how the Second World War affected Africa and its people; a story of displacement and family

Meet Linda • Linda lives a nice, normal life, on a nice, normal street with Terry, her perfectly ordinary husband • Linda's not like everyone else, she keeps herself to herself. But she's good at solving puzzles and there are times she sees things other people might have overlooked • Because nothing on Cavendish Avenue is quite as it seems. People have started to go missing in the neighbourhood and Linda will soon discover that some secrets can't stay buried forever…

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? • Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a shocking phone call one morning: the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight • Horrified by this news, she copes in the only way she knows how - throwing herself into work, looking after her young daughter and carrying on with two ill-advised affairs • But no one can make their own story disappear, and soon Suzy's life is spiralling into chaos: will it end in violence or redemption?

Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband Cyril – both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties – make a pact: to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned eighty • A lot can change in thirty years, however… • By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril. Do they honour their agreement? And if not, will they live to regret it?